小說/散文

Elephant in the Room
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20280758
作者：
Sloan, Holly Goldberg
定價：
315
會員價：
$268
ISBN：
9780735229952
出版年份：
2022
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
272
  • 本書介紹
【關於房間裡的大象】
女孩西拉與父母居住在土耳其，有天母親因為居留權問題，必須返回美國解決，留下她和從事機械修理的父親，有天他們遇到一位中彩票發橫財的老先生，他買了一隻在岌岌可危的馬戲團中失去自由許久的的大象。
女孩西拉在想念母親的同時，認識了新朋友，同時也展開了一場與動物的友誼序曲。

自從西拉的母親穿越幾近半個地球到土耳其

It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.

The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.

A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.

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